The Objectives of IAGE Energy Storage Division

• IAGE Energy Storage Division is established and managed under the administration of the IAGE Scientific Committee.

• To develop, maintain, and update the operating guidelines of the Division.

• To promote IAGE related to the themes of the Division.

Duties and Responsibilities

• The Division will conduct activities to enhance research and development, and information dissemination in their sub-areas, by organizing meetings, short courses, workshops, symposia, and conferences.

• The Division will support the Scientific Committee within their best knowledge and expertise upon the request of the Scientific Committee.

• The Division Chair shall submit an annal report of the Division to the Scientific Committee.

• The Division Chair shall sit on the Scientific Committee.

Academic Scope

The Division traces and encourages the advances in energy storage for achieving the long-term sustainable green energy society, and the special focuses include but not limited to:

• Electrochemical energy storage: Secondary battery; Redox flow battery; Fuel cell

• Chemical and fuel energy storage: Hydrogen energy storage; Power-to-gas technology

• Thermal energy storage: Molten salt thermal energy storage; phase change materials (PCM); sub-surface storage; long-term storage; water heat storage

• Electro-magnetic energy storage: Supercapacitor energy storage; Superconducting magnetic energy storage

• Mechanical energy storage: Pumped hydropower storage; Compressed air energy storage; Flywheel energy storage

• Distributed generation and microgrid

• Intelligent grid system

Division Board Members

Chair:

Kui Jiao, Tianjin University, China

Vice Chair:

Fei Gao, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France

Member:

Ibrahim Alaefour, Cummins Inc., Canada

Liang An, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Bin Li, Tianjin University, China

Tingxian Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Meng Ni, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Zhiguo Qu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Kaushik Saha, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Huizhi Wang, Imperial College London, UK

Yun Wang, University of California, Irvine, US

Jin Xuan, Loughborough University, UK

Nada Zamel, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Germany

Secretary:

Bowen Wang, Tianjin University, China

Objectives of the IAGE Fuel Cell and Electrolyzer Technical Division

• To develop, maintain, and update the operating guidelines of the Division.

• To promote IAGE related to the themes of the Division.

Duties and Responsibilities

• The Division enhances research and development, and information dissemination in their sub-areas, by organizing meetings, short courses, workshops, symposia, conferences, and the like.

• The Division supports the Scientific Committee within their best knowledge and expertise upon the request of the Scientific Committee.

• The Division Chair shall submit an annal report of the Division to the Scientific Committee.

• The Division Chair shall sit on the Scientific Committee.

Academic Scope

The Division advances the technologies in the fields of fuel cells and electrolyzers for the green energy community. The focuses of the Division include, but not limited to, the following:

• Fuel cells (Proton exchange membrane fuel cell, Solid oxide fuel cell, etc.)

• Electrolyzers (Proton exchange membrane electrolyzer, Solid oxide electrolyzer, etc.)

• Advanced energy materials, including

• Electrocatalyst (Catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction, hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen evolution reaction, etc.)

• Catalyst support (Carbon and metal oxide-based supports, etc.)

• Anion and cation exchange membranes for fuel cells and electrolyzers

• Parts, components and devices, including

• Catalyst layers for fuel cells and electrolyzers

• Porous transport layer and microporous layer for fuel cells and electrolyzers

• Membrane electrode assembly for fuel cells and electrolyzers

• Bipolar plates and flow field layouts

• Fuel cell and electrolyzer stacks

• System integration and optimization for fuel cells and electrolyzers

Division Board Members

Chair:

Samaneh Shahgaldi, Associate professor, Canada Research Chair on fuel cell, University of Quebec, Canada

Member:

Ibrahim Aladefour, Senior Research Scientist at water electrolyzer- Cummins, Cummins Inc., Canada

Li Chen, Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Prodip Das, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, University of Newcastle, UK

Jennie Eastcott, Senior research scientist at membrane electrode assembly, Cummins Inc., Canada

Naoshad Islam, Senior research scientist at electrocatalysts, Cummins Inc., Canada

Kean Long Lim, Research Scientist at Hydrogen, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia

Ramesh Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology, India

Mohammad Soleimani, Associate Professor, Amol University, Iran

Kerrilee Stewart-Thomas, Scientist at Membrane electrode assembly, Cummins Inc., Canada

Hossein Talebi-Ghadikolaeez, Assistant Professor, University of Kashan, Iran

Gaixia.Zhang, Associate Professor, Marcelle-Gauvreau Engineering Research Chair

École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Canada

Junfeng Zhang, Associate Professor, Tianjin University, China

Objectives of the IAGE Sustainable Energy Materials Division

• IAGE Sustainable Energy Materials Division is established and managed under the administration of the IAGE Scientific Committee.

• To develop, maintain, and update the operating guidelines of the Division.

• To promote IAGE related to the themes of the Division.

Duties and Responsibilities

• The Division will conduct activities to enhance research and development, and information dissemination in their sub-areas, by organizing meetings, short courses, workshops, symposia, and conferences.

• The Division will support the Scientific Committee with their best knowledge and expertise upon the request of the Scientific Committee.

• The Division Chair shall submit an annual report of the Division to the Scientific Committee.

• The Division Chair shall sit on the Scientific Committee.

Academic Scope

The Division traces and encourages the advances in energy materials design, development and application with special consideration of sustainability, for achieving the long-term goal of making a sustainable economy and society. The special focuses of the Division include but are not limited to:

• Experimental developments of novel energy materials

a. materials with new morphology, structure, composition, phase, and/or form for clean energy applications;

b. new synthetic approaches/routes that are more efficient, lower energy consuming, and/or greener;

c. emerging materials and/or materials research platforms, e.g., high/medium entropy materials, MXene materials, etc.;

• Theoretical understanding of novel materials/materials chemistry

a. analysis of materials structure and composition using calculation/simulation;

b. prediction of materials, materials structures/properties, and/or materials synthetic approaches;

c. life cycle analysis and life cycle cost analysis of materials;

• Mechanism analysis of energy materials in chemical, electrochemical, and/or photoelectrochemical processes

a. advanced characterization techniques, approaches, and facilities;

b. correlation of energy materials microstructure with their properties and/or performance;

c. new in-situ, operando operations;

• Critical minerals around energy conversion/storage technologies

a. recycling of critical mineral elements materials from spent energy technologies, e.g., recycling of Ni, Co, Fe, Mn, Zn, graphite from spent lithium-ion batteries using metallurgical approaches, direct relithiation, etc.;

b. upcycling of critical mineral elements materials from spent energy technologies, e.g., upcycling electrode/electrode materials, upcycling spent battery materials for fuel cells, water splitting, etc.;

c. upgrading of current technologies, e.g., upgrading primary batteries into rechargeable batteries;

• Scaling up technologies and prototype/device development.

Division Leadership

Chair:

Prof. Xiaolei Wang, University of Alberta, Canada

Vice Chair:

Prof. Zheng Chen, University of California, San Diego, US

Secretary:

Prof. Jie Ying, Zhongshan University, China

Division Board Member:

Dr. Matthew Li, Argonne National Laboratory, US Prof. Bing Guo, University of Surrey, UK

Prof. Drew Higgins, McMaster University, Canada

Prof. Sung Mook Choi, Korea Institute of Materials Science, Korea

Prof. Dhirendra Kumar Rai, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India Prof. Hadis Zarrin, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Prof. Yao Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Prof. Min Ho Seo, Pukyong National University, Korea

Prof. Gaixia Zhang, École de technologie supérieure, Canada Prof. Zhengyu Bai, Henan Normal University, China

Prof. Ge Li, University of Alberta, Canada